This page is to collect ideas and articles brought up during discussions for further readings.

Sunday

Debate:

Denise: Google "box" fuel cells
"Bloom Box Fuel Cell"
Report: Bloom Energy to power Apple’s iCloud cell farm, the nation’s biggest non-utility fuel cell installation
Bloom Energy Begins Fuel Cell Production in Delaware

Rate of global warming
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173739884/since-end-of-last-ice-age-rates-of-global-warming-amazing-and-atypical

Monday

Article from the NYTimes
Bangladesh Pollution
Slideshow of Bangladesh Pollution
NY Times Slideshow

From Ida Beth:
Cadwalader Park
Cadwalader Park: Wikipedia
Cadwalader Park: Video from Trenton History

From Denise:
TED talk on Green Wall efforts in schools
Green Wall Video

From Jamie:
Sir Ken Robinson TED talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
(transcript here)

Emerson's speech praising John Brown 1859

Jane Goodall's TED talk that discusses thinking 7 generations ahead

From Kathy:
GreenFaith.org

Tuesday

From Matt:
D.H. Lawrence //Women in Love//
(quoted page 120-21)

From John:
Ghost Dance - from Oklahoma Historical Society
PBS: An Account of the Ghost Dance of the Lakota from 1890

From Jamie:
The Lorax (wikipedia)
Quotes from //The Lorax//

1967 Newark Riots

From Rutgers University
Article from NY Times (1967)
Video clips:
Riots in Newark New Jersey 1967
Newark Riots 1967 footage
Five Days in July 2-screen video installation
Newark Riots "At the Stadium" (footage largely of National Guard at Newark Schools Stadium on Bloomfield Avenue)

From Denise:
//Seedfolks// by Paul Fleischman
(Grade 5 and up, told in 13 different multicultural voices)

Supreme Court Rules Against Christie on COAH
NJ.com Editorial
National Law Review article on ruling
North Jersey editorial that includes comments about the basis of the ruling

From Denise:
The High Line Park
NYC High Line Park

4 Phils and Brain Cancer: Connection or Coincidence?

From Christine:
Factors that lead to cancer "Cancer Prevention Might Be Easier Than You Think"

Wednesday

Article on Margaret Sanger, Birth Control, and "The Negro Project"

From Jen:
Roundup from India:
Children Die After Eating School Lunch
Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest
What India's Decision to Ban Captive Dolphins Means
Lacey Wells Court Summary

Seen in Rescuing the River: The Raritan:
Three Days on Big City Waters (film from 1974 by Rutgers U Professor Michael Aaron Rockland)
(streams online!)
Snowshoeing Through Sewers by Michael Aaron Rockland
(book on seeing the wilderness in urban landscapes--includes stories of canoeing the Delaware-Raritan Canal)

Watershed brochure (pdf link) from NJ (includes watershed maps of NJ)
Watershed brochure

Plastic Island in Pacific
Article about plastic island
5 Gyres Institute

Field Trip w Highlands representatives

From Julia:
Blue Death by Robert Morris
Save H2O NJ -- Coalition between Highlands and Pinelands

Thursday

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Book on Watershed Lessons (available used for under $4)
Watershed: A Successful Voyage Into Integrative Learning

Article on Corporate Environmental Action (pdf)
"Leaders and Laggards: The Influence of Competing Logics on Corporate Environmental Action"
Authors: Irene M. Herremans, M. Sandy Herschovis and Stephanie Bertels
Source: Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 89, No. 3 (Oct., 2009), pp. 449-472


Seafood Watch app from Monterey Bay Aquarium

From Jen:
Promised Land (film) Dir. Gus Van Sant. starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook, Frances McDormand

Gasland (film)
Gasland (official site)

From John:
What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking?

FEMA uses outdated maps to create new floodzones

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA dystopian fiction)

From Jamie:
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo


Dark Life by Kat Falls (ocean floor is new frontier)
Dark Life by Kat Falls

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch (plague has wiped out humanity; return to nature)
The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

Revolution (Network TV show. Electricty has been turned off)
NBC: Revolution


From Eva:
EPA water information
http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/water_trivia_facts.cfm

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
NJDEP
Recycling Poetry Contest
(for grades 4, 5, and 6 in 2013)

NJDEP SEEDs Classroom Materials (many links for a variety of resources on this page)
SEEDS Classroom Materials

The Story of Stuff Powerpoint Presentation from the NJDEP
-aimed at 4th-8th graders
-is a slideshow focusing on recycling (not the movie below)
PowerPoint on Recycling (The Story of Stuff)

The Story of Stuff Project (contains a 20 minute movie available to watch online or download)
focus on consumerism
The Story of Stuff website
YouTube version of the movie

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